⁹“Then people will arrest you, hand you over to be hurt, and kill you. They will hate you because you believe in me. ¹⁰At that time, many will lose their faith, and they will turn against each other and hate each other. ¹¹Many false prophets will come and cause many people to believe lies. ¹²There will be more and more evil in the world, so most people will stop showing their love for each other. ¹³But those people who keep their faith until the end will be saved. ¹⁴The Good News about God’s kingdom will be preached in all the world, to every nation. Then the end will come.

¹⁵“Daniel the prophet spoke about ‘a blasphemous object that brings destruction.’ ⁿ You will see this standing in the holy place.” (You who read this should understand what it means.) ¹⁶“At that time, the people in Judea should run away to the mountains. ¹⁷If people are on the roofs ⁿ of their houses, they must not go down to get anything out of their houses. ¹⁸If people are in the fields, they must not go back to get their coats. ¹⁹At that time, how terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or have nursing babies! ²⁰Pray that it will not be winter or a Sabbath day when these things happen and you have to run away,

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Footnotes

n‘a blasphemous object that brings destruction.’ Mentioned in Daniel 9:27; 12:11 (see also Daniel 11:31).
nroofs In Bible times houses were built with flat roofs. The roof was used for drying things such as flax and fruit. And it was used as an extra room, as a place for worship, and as a cool place to sleep in the summer.